1 00:00:02,340 --> 00:00:02,610 All right. 2 00:00:02,610 --> 00:00:04,350 Writing general overviews. 3 00:00:08,090 --> 00:00:11,600 Construction and analysis of general overviews. 4 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:19,230 So we're going to look at how to write a proper overview and then we're going to work on some time writing. 5 00:00:19,230 --> 00:00:26,220 And I will look at some of the examples so that we can learn, and then I will let you see my general 6 00:00:26,220 --> 00:00:27,450 overview also. 7 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:32,860 So first, some information about writing a general overview. 8 00:00:34,890 --> 00:00:36,360 A general overview. 9 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:41,630 Is where you're looking at the main features on the graph. 10 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:43,460 What's the highest? 11 00:00:43,490 --> 00:00:44,930 What's the lowest? 12 00:00:45,170 --> 00:00:45,830 Right. 13 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:48,140 What are the main features? 14 00:00:49,950 --> 00:00:52,860 If it's a process, how many stages? 15 00:00:54,150 --> 00:00:54,480 Right. 16 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:56,040 The main features. 17 00:00:56,310 --> 00:00:57,660 The common features. 18 00:00:57,660 --> 00:01:01,260 The thing the over the overreaching trends. 19 00:01:02,690 --> 00:01:05,870 First the graph goes up, then it goes down. 20 00:01:07,150 --> 00:01:07,630 Right. 21 00:01:07,750 --> 00:01:14,260 The line graph fluctuates from 2000 to 2 to 2025. 22 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:17,650 What are the main features that you see? 23 00:01:19,330 --> 00:01:26,410 Now in the general overview, it's good to use some linking language to indicate to indicate that you 24 00:01:26,410 --> 00:01:29,410 are expressing an overall trend. 25 00:01:29,770 --> 00:01:35,980 So sometimes you'll see language like overall, clearly, in brief, it can be seen. 26 00:01:36,220 --> 00:01:38,170 You see that kind of language. 27 00:01:40,550 --> 00:01:46,160 Do not include details when you're doing a general overview. 28 00:01:46,490 --> 00:01:52,670 Do not include any numbers, figures or specific comparisons. 29 00:01:53,090 --> 00:01:56,200 Do not support any information with data. 30 00:01:56,210 --> 00:02:00,110 No specific numbers with a general overview. 31 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:06,980 You are expressing what you can just see visually, right when you first look at it. 32 00:02:07,010 --> 00:02:08,690 What do you notice right away? 33 00:02:09,110 --> 00:02:12,140 We're not talking about the specific comparisons. 34 00:02:13,310 --> 00:02:13,940 Okay. 35 00:02:14,640 --> 00:02:18,840 That's what we're talking about when we're when we're doing a general overview. 36 00:02:23,700 --> 00:02:29,640 So when you're doing a general overview, some questions you want to ask, what does the data do from 37 00:02:29,640 --> 00:02:30,840 start to finish? 38 00:02:31,290 --> 00:02:33,480 Does it generally go up or go down? 39 00:02:34,050 --> 00:02:36,070 Are there any significant differences? 40 00:02:36,090 --> 00:02:38,760 What's the overall increase or decrease? 41 00:02:39,330 --> 00:02:40,220 What are the highs? 42 00:02:40,230 --> 00:02:41,490 What are the lows? 43 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:51,280 As I said earlier, what are the highest values? 44 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:52,120 Lowest values? 45 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:53,830 What's the most noticeable difference? 46 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:55,630 Any similarities? 47 00:02:55,630 --> 00:02:57,700 Any significant exceptions? 48 00:02:58,530 --> 00:03:05,040 These are the kind of questions that you would ask when you're when you're doing ask yourself when you're 49 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:07,350 doing a general overview. 50 00:03:12,260 --> 00:03:15,440 And even with a diagram or a process. 51 00:03:16,250 --> 00:03:18,890 How many steps are in the process? 52 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:21,950 What is mainly going on in the diagram? 53 00:03:21,950 --> 00:03:23,680 How does the process begin and end? 54 00:03:23,690 --> 00:03:25,310 What are the main differences? 55 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:28,840 What are the number of differences? 56 00:03:28,910 --> 00:03:30,100 Similarities. 57 00:03:30,730 --> 00:03:36,070 So when you're writing a general overview, these are the kind of questions that you should be really 58 00:03:36,070 --> 00:03:37,480 asking yourself. 59 00:03:38,900 --> 00:03:39,260 Okay. 60 00:03:39,350 --> 00:03:45,110 These are the kind of questions you ask yourself to get the right information to do a general overview. 61 00:03:56,770 --> 00:03:58,150 I have a question really quickly. 62 00:03:58,150 --> 00:04:01,960 I want to address Mabel Costa. 63 00:04:03,090 --> 00:04:10,260 In the example you gave earlier, can we choose to write about the yearly distribution or with regards 64 00:04:10,260 --> 00:04:11,610 to the products? 65 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:13,950 Are you talking? 66 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:14,590 Are you talking? 67 00:04:14,590 --> 00:04:18,310 If you're talking about including numbers, maybe we wouldn't do that. 68 00:04:20,020 --> 00:04:20,180 Right. 69 00:04:20,230 --> 00:04:21,010 We would, we wouldn't. 70 00:04:21,010 --> 00:04:23,530 We wouldn't we wouldn't include any numbers. 71 00:04:23,980 --> 00:04:27,790 Now, I may not be clear on your I may not be clear on your question, Mabel. 72 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:35,250 But if you're talking about using specific numbers or specific data or information, you don't do that. 73 00:04:35,250 --> 00:04:41,640 You don't do that in the introduction, and you don't do that in a general overview. 74 00:04:42,030 --> 00:04:45,690 You're not going to talk about any specific numbers. 75 00:04:46,570 --> 00:04:52,840 Or mention any specific numbers until you get down to the bottom to the third and fourth paragraph. 76 00:04:57,640 --> 00:04:58,000 She? 77 00:05:00,740 --> 00:05:01,280 Okay. 78 00:05:01,280 --> 00:05:06,860 So for our same bar chart, we're now about to write the general overview. 79 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:08,480 Write a general overview. 80 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:09,380 For this bar chart. 81 00:05:09,380 --> 00:05:10,910 You have 4 minutes. 82 00:05:11,450 --> 00:05:14,150 4 minutes to write a general overview. 83 00:05:14,540 --> 00:05:16,850 Type it in the chat box at the end. 84 00:05:16,850 --> 00:05:18,500 I will look at some of them. 85 00:09:31,130 --> 00:09:31,660 Okay. 86 00:09:31,670 --> 00:09:32,660 Time is up. 87 00:09:32,930 --> 00:09:40,220 We're going to pause for a moment while I pull out some of the examples to look at. 88 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:46,490 And again, when I'm when I'm pulling out examples, I'm putting out examples because there's certain 89 00:09:46,490 --> 00:09:48,140 things I'm trying to teach. 90 00:09:49,700 --> 00:09:51,530 There are certain things I'm trying to teach. 91 00:09:58,320 --> 00:09:58,680 Okay. 92 00:09:58,680 --> 00:10:02,400 So let's look at some of these general overviews. 93 00:10:03,980 --> 00:10:09,350 Generally speaking, it can be precisely stated that the exports of meat products are at the bottom 94 00:10:09,350 --> 00:10:14,060 position among the given categories in all three years. 95 00:10:15,310 --> 00:10:15,610 Right. 96 00:10:15,610 --> 00:10:18,370 That's a good that's a good overview sentence. 97 00:10:18,970 --> 00:10:19,270 Right. 98 00:10:19,270 --> 00:10:22,330 This first sentence is a really good overview sentence. 99 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:29,020 When we look at a general overview, the meat products are at the bottom every single year. 100 00:10:29,020 --> 00:10:34,840 That is an excellent example of what a general overview sentence looks like. 101 00:10:37,540 --> 00:10:44,380 Exports of dairy products and global tourism is at the peak in the year 2020 and 2025 respectively. 102 00:10:44,410 --> 00:10:45,250 Good job. 103 00:10:46,150 --> 00:10:47,320 This first one. 104 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:51,190 This first one is a really good example of a general overview. 105 00:10:52,010 --> 00:10:56,810 Now some people might highlight different, different things in terms of a general overview. 106 00:10:57,020 --> 00:11:00,110 So there's not just there's not just one way to do it. 107 00:11:00,710 --> 00:11:03,080 There's not just only one set of information. 108 00:11:03,500 --> 00:11:09,290 But if an examiner looks at this first one that I'm pointing out right here, there's the first one 109 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:12,350 is what we mean by general overview. 110 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:19,510 The graph shows the southland's export products will change on the five on the five years horizon. 111 00:11:20,380 --> 00:11:21,880 That's not accurate. 112 00:11:24,680 --> 00:11:24,960 A. 113 00:11:27,260 --> 00:11:29,020 Exports will change. 114 00:11:30,230 --> 00:11:34,010 This should be over the five over the three time period. 115 00:11:34,010 --> 00:11:37,070 So accuracy in writing is really important. 116 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:48,530 Meat products will have a moderate decline growing rapidly now. 117 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:54,960 I don't know what this last sentence means here. 118 00:11:55,740 --> 00:12:01,200 It could be seen from the bar charts that international tourism will increase gradually, whereas dairy 119 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:07,440 products, dairy products, exports first increase till present. 120 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:09,810 Then it will start to decrease. 121 00:12:10,290 --> 00:12:11,740 That's that's fine. 122 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:13,590 Grammar mistakes, you know. 123 00:12:19,270 --> 00:12:19,520 Yeah. 124 00:12:19,540 --> 00:12:24,550 The main the main problem with this third one here is that it has the right information, but every 125 00:12:24,550 --> 00:12:26,500 single sentence has grammar mistakes. 126 00:12:27,090 --> 00:12:31,870 Yeah, like I said, when every sentence has grammar grammar mistakes, it doesn't matter if you have 127 00:12:31,870 --> 00:12:34,720 the right information, the score is going to be stuck. 128 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:39,040 Stuck between the six and 6.5 because of the mistakes. 129 00:12:40,290 --> 00:12:41,760 The bar charts. 130 00:12:41,910 --> 00:12:43,530 Again, this is a grammar mistake. 131 00:12:43,530 --> 00:12:50,190 The bar charts the bar chart shows that while they export in dairy and meat products will decrease in 132 00:12:50,190 --> 00:12:51,480 2025. 133 00:12:53,110 --> 00:12:56,860 The export of international tourism will be more in 2025 than when it is. 134 00:12:57,190 --> 00:12:58,920 Yeah, this first one is okay. 135 00:12:58,930 --> 00:13:00,580 I would have had another sentence. 136 00:13:02,730 --> 00:13:05,190 Generally speaking, international tourism is projected. 137 00:13:05,190 --> 00:13:06,810 So this is this is what this is. 138 00:13:06,900 --> 00:13:09,840 This will be an example of what an examiner will say. 139 00:13:10,590 --> 00:13:16,290 It is he sufficiently gives a general overview, but is not a full general overview. 140 00:13:20,650 --> 00:13:25,930 Generally speaking, international tourism is projected to grow by 2025, whereas meat products will 141 00:13:25,930 --> 00:13:26,790 continue to decline. 142 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:31,540 Yes, dairy products will increase by 2025. 143 00:13:31,540 --> 00:13:33,640 That's not well by 2025. 144 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:34,090 Yeah. 145 00:13:34,570 --> 00:13:35,200 Will increase. 146 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:35,510 Yeah. 147 00:13:35,530 --> 00:13:37,150 That's that's generally okay. 148 00:13:40,970 --> 00:13:41,510 Yeah. 149 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:46,880 I would have talked about more about what was the high point for dairy instead of saying it this way. 150 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:47,990 But that's fine. 151 00:13:49,350 --> 00:13:58,530 Overall capitalism is Capa's capitalization spelling and found that the values of exported product increases 152 00:13:58,530 --> 00:13:59,370 gradually. 153 00:14:00,820 --> 00:14:04,300 From 22 2000, except. 154 00:14:05,310 --> 00:14:08,370 Meat products, but it will be estimated as graph. 155 00:14:08,730 --> 00:14:11,120 Yeah, I have trouble reading this because of the grammar. 156 00:14:11,130 --> 00:14:11,910 I'm sorry. 157 00:14:12,210 --> 00:14:17,280 I think you have the information here, but there probably are like ten grammar mistakes in this one 158 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:18,060 sentence. 159 00:14:19,700 --> 00:14:26,030 Broadly speaking, the international tourism was leased in the year 2000 comma, but it will be very 160 00:14:26,030 --> 00:14:28,160 high in the year 2025. 161 00:14:31,270 --> 00:14:31,790 Uh. 162 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:34,280 Yeah. 163 00:14:34,460 --> 00:14:39,560 Instead of saying be very high, I would probably say at its highest for exports of dairy. 164 00:14:40,430 --> 00:14:43,790 It is most found in the year that most found. 165 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:45,950 That's not a good location. 166 00:14:45,950 --> 00:14:47,120 It's that most found. 167 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:50,600 We're talking about revenue, income, money. 168 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:53,060 Not most found. 169 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:57,590 That's an example of when they're talking about poor Haitians. 170 00:14:57,590 --> 00:14:59,150 That's what they're talking about there. 171 00:15:00,470 --> 00:15:00,810 All right. 172 00:15:00,890 --> 00:15:03,320 But that one this one also has the right information. 173 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:05,180 They put in three sentences. 174 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:08,120 They put it in three sentences, which is fine. 175 00:15:09,170 --> 00:15:10,610 I think you could have said it. 176 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:15,410 You could have said it more concisely, and that would have scored better. 177 00:15:16,590 --> 00:15:17,910 Whoever did this one. 178 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:21,240 We don't don't we don't put in. 179 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:25,000 We don't put in numbers. 180 00:15:25,870 --> 00:15:28,270 In the general overview, there are no numbers. 181 00:15:30,670 --> 00:15:30,880 Right. 182 00:15:30,970 --> 00:15:32,830 That's something that you don't want to do. 183 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:37,340 And then also here. 184 00:15:38,570 --> 00:15:43,610 The Dairy International predicted to remain at the top in the projected year. 185 00:15:45,510 --> 00:15:45,780 Yeah. 186 00:15:45,930 --> 00:15:52,500 I think again, you have good information, but the grammar, there's several grammar mistakes. 187 00:15:52,710 --> 00:15:53,460 And what happens? 188 00:15:53,460 --> 00:15:53,970 What happens? 189 00:15:53,970 --> 00:15:59,490 Everybody, when you have several grammar mistakes, what happens is not only does it lower the grammar 190 00:15:59,490 --> 00:16:03,570 score, but it lowers it lowers the coherence score. 191 00:16:04,750 --> 00:16:06,490 It lowers the coherence score. 192 00:16:07,260 --> 00:16:07,500 Right. 193 00:16:07,570 --> 00:16:14,350 It becomes if if I have to read something or an example or examiner has to read something three times 194 00:16:14,740 --> 00:16:16,540 to get what you're talking about. 195 00:16:16,660 --> 00:16:17,950 Score drops. 196 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:19,390 Okay. 197 00:16:19,540 --> 00:16:25,120 So again, this one has good information, but you should not be putting in numbers and you have to 198 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:28,930 eliminate all the grammar mistakes within the writing. 199 00:16:30,070 --> 00:16:33,100 And that's why that's why we're working on With the clock. 200 00:16:33,580 --> 00:16:35,680 That's why we're working with clock pressure. 201 00:16:36,340 --> 00:16:38,740 Because clock pressure reveals you. 202 00:16:39,940 --> 00:16:45,490 A lot of times people sit there at home and take 20 minutes to write a general overview to make it perfect. 203 00:16:45,490 --> 00:16:46,720 That's not reality. 204 00:16:47,500 --> 00:16:48,880 You've got to work with that clock. 205 00:16:50,130 --> 00:16:50,760 Okay. 206 00:16:51,540 --> 00:16:54,450 Let's take a look at my examples. 207 00:16:57,970 --> 00:16:58,210 Here. 208 00:16:58,210 --> 00:16:59,920 You can look at my examples. 209 00:17:01,630 --> 00:17:05,590 In my first example, I'm doing what's called a cleft sentence. 210 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:14,740 A cleft sentence is a sentence that starts out with the word what or starts out with the word it. 211 00:17:15,250 --> 00:17:21,910 It is a high level grammar sentence, and I'm just showing you how to do it. 212 00:17:21,910 --> 00:17:26,710 I'm showing you how to write a cleft sentence and how to do a clause of concession, because that's 213 00:17:26,710 --> 00:17:31,030 high level writing when you're talking about really impressing an examiner. 214 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:38,780 What becomes readily apparent is that the export category incomes fluctuate differently with tourism 215 00:17:38,780 --> 00:17:39,950 steadily rising. 216 00:17:40,370 --> 00:17:44,120 Dairy increasing significantly and then decreasing slightly. 217 00:17:44,420 --> 00:17:48,170 And finally, meat products gradually dropping each measured year. 218 00:17:48,950 --> 00:17:56,420 Overall prognostications suggest that by 2025, international tourism will overtake the other categories 219 00:17:56,420 --> 00:17:58,190 in terms of export revenue. 220 00:17:59,980 --> 00:18:00,570 Okay. 221 00:18:00,610 --> 00:18:01,790 So that's one of my. 222 00:18:01,810 --> 00:18:03,280 That's a general overview. 223 00:18:04,630 --> 00:18:10,300 Although tourism revenue steadily increases the meat product earnings chart oppositely, the dairy product 224 00:18:10,300 --> 00:18:14,260 proceeds surge and then minimally descend over the three time periods. 225 00:18:14,710 --> 00:18:20,920 Overall, the chart shows tourism was the top earner for 2000 and predicted the same for 2025. 226 00:18:21,250 --> 00:18:24,970 But in 2020, dairy leads in export profits. 227 00:18:26,290 --> 00:18:28,810 So those are my examples of a general overview. 228 00:18:29,980 --> 00:18:33,520 The first one I like what I like what the person did in the first one. 229 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:39,640 When they describe how meat is the lowest in every single year, I think that was a really good one. 230 00:18:40,630 --> 00:18:42,850 I think that was a really good one to include. 231 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:44,130 Yeah. 232 00:18:44,130 --> 00:18:45,090 I didn't include that. 233 00:18:45,120 --> 00:18:48,060 I didn't I didn't I didn't say it in mine that way. 234 00:18:48,390 --> 00:18:52,050 But the way that that person did it, that was really, really well done. 235 00:18:52,650 --> 00:18:52,920 All right. 236 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:55,890 But these are my examples of a general overview. 237 00:18:57,840 --> 00:18:58,050 All right. 238 00:18:58,080 --> 00:18:59,580 I have a couple of questions. 239 00:19:05,490 --> 00:19:07,680 A good book to improve your grammar. 240 00:19:11,830 --> 00:19:13,030 I mean, there's. 241 00:19:14,030 --> 00:19:17,990 I mean, there's a couple of I don't know, I can't I don't know about a good book right now to improve 242 00:19:17,990 --> 00:19:18,380 your grammar. 243 00:19:18,380 --> 00:19:21,830 You can ask me that course, ask me that question and the Udemy course. 244 00:19:21,830 --> 00:19:28,070 I can't, I don't know, one off the top of my head as I told told you, I think the best way to improve 245 00:19:28,070 --> 00:19:34,460 your grammar is using a premium version of an application like Grammarly because it helps you with your 246 00:19:34,460 --> 00:19:37,610 specific grammar, right? 247 00:19:37,610 --> 00:19:39,650 It helps you with your specific grammar. 248 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:46,190 If you're talking about grammar books, I think Collins or somebody has a grammar book, but I don't 249 00:19:46,190 --> 00:19:47,990 have it right now in front of me right now. 250 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:50,420 But that's like if you're trying to learn grammar. 251 00:19:52,410 --> 00:19:53,820 If you go on YouTube. 252 00:19:54,710 --> 00:19:59,660 If you go on YouTube and look at the grammar series, bye bye. 253 00:19:59,660 --> 00:20:00,860 Khan Academy. 254 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:09,650 Khan Academy has a whole grammar series, probably like 50 videos that teach grammar with examples. 255 00:20:10,100 --> 00:20:13,520 You can watch that right on YouTube if you can if you if you have YouTube. 256 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:14,950 Okay. 257 00:20:15,190 --> 00:20:15,550 All right. 258 00:20:15,550 --> 00:20:17,080 Let's go ahead and move on. 259 00:20:17,110 --> 00:20:20,290 Does anybody have any questions about the general overview? 260 00:20:24,610 --> 00:20:24,880 Good. 261 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:28,540 I hope that you are able to learn something. 262 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:31,190 From the general overview. 263 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:32,640 Let's go ahead and move forward.